I'll be working on it most of the day today and tomorrow;
planning to host a test session some time on the 4th, probably late.
Check back for details.

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Any chance your working on it will affect FFO to lag a little?

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reply to Shane:

Do you mean hosting? No; it shouldn't.

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Should I get there through the Byond Hub, or will you post a new link?

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I will post a link here in 5-6 hours.

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What can we expect as testers, and what will you expect as a developer?


Edit: Is everyone invited?

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The server is up at byond://www.terulia.com:2448

What I'd like for people to do is to play the game through the Mauge quest and look for bugs and any problems.
You're also free to experiment with building walls and such.

From my own testing, I see that we're going to need some additional icons for buildings. Since domain buildings are going to be fully customizable now, we need more appropriate icons for walls. (You wouldn't want palisades in your living room, right?) With that, I can finish up the building system and then move on to finishing the newbie quests and start on the full-blown kingdom system.

Remember, outlaw status is kingdom-based now, and Fort Eldon is a "kingdom", so if you plan to PvP, be aware that it will probably outlaw you in town.

edit: apparently there's a bug with char creation... hang on...

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then can we get a loading screen like for ffo?

Gaku: what I meant was that I hadn't started the loading process, i.e. the game itself was down.

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Overall it looks great! I look foreward to a finished product, and FFO players will love it! You should let us play it for a week and record our bug reports and improvement ideas.

Gaku: Thanks; needs some more work first, though. It's back up by the way

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Is the testing over with? I just seen this and wanted to try it out now that FFO is gone forever :( ...DAMN YOU SQUARE!

I click on the link and it shows up "Dream Daemon Killing Connection"

edit: It's "down" at the moment due to a BYOND bug.

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I'm going to keep it in this limbo state while the BYOND devs try to diagnose why it's crashing. It's a serious problem...

Anyway, I'd say this testing session was a success over all, and a lot of bugs were fixed.

Farkon mentioned that NPCs were getting trapped by the map, and in my own personal testing, this is a real problem that uses up all available processing power. To address this issue, I'm going to have to re-code part of the custom movement system; this will probably break a number of other things in the short term, so our next testing session will take place once it's ready.

Marcus is gone for now, which means we're without any dedicated icon makers. Some things I need created:
wall icons for custom buildings (8 states)
door icons for custom buildings (n/s and e/w)
gate icons (n/s and e/w)
an attack animation for whips

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